Intellectual Property Law

Maureen Dowd's gender problem

By Siva Vaidhyanathan

Media Matters:

Report: Maureen Dowd repeatedly uses gender to mock Democrats

Summary: A Media Matters for America review of Maureen Dowd's columns since the beginning of 2007 reveals that Dowd frequently characterized Sen. Hillary Clinton as masculine, while portraying Sen. Barack Obama and John Edwards as feminine. By contrast, Dowd rarely feminized the all-male Republican field and, during the period Media Matters reviewed, has never feminized Sen. John McCain, whom she has referred to in one column as a "tough guy[]."

Full post as published by SIVACRACY .NET on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).